Leak!!

[PhilT]

Hi everyone,

Recently been noticing a few drip marks on the drive under the front of the X5 so decided to get underneath yesterday and investigate. After taking the undertray of below the engine I discovered what appears to be the culprit (or culprits). At the bottom of the engine, just behind the bumper there are two large hoses connecting to a radiator (I assume cos I can't actually see it!) and the connections around the springclips) on both of these are wet.

After trawling realoem I think I've narrowed it down to the item below which i assume is the turbo intercooler (not sure why realoem call it a supercharger?).


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I've cleaned the pipes/joints up (around numbers 3 & 8 on the diagram) as best I can (though access is quite difficult) and was thinking of leaving the undertray of for a couple of days and then checking to see if they are wet again (heres me vainly hoping they may just have been slightly dislodged).

Has anyone had any problems with these pipes before or know anything more about this - any help and advice would be greatly appreciated as always.

[jap scrap]

Nothing should be dripping from them as only air should be passing through the pipes for your intercooler i would try looking from the top down and see is there oil leaking from somewhere else

[PhilT]

Thanks for the reply, that's strange cos both joints are coated with a black oily deposit as though they are leaking. Can see anything directly above that is leaking but as per my other post it appears I've got a leaking steering fluid pipe so that could be the culprit - god knows how the fluid has got to these junctions though without coating everything around it